gitignore does not ignore wildcard directory if it is a link

From: voxspox <hidden>
Date: 2020-08-21 13:37:26

Hi,

I start with a scenario:

contents of working copy:

/somefile1
/test/dir1  (directory)
/test/dir2  (link to directory)
/test/dir3  (link to directory)
/test/file1

I want to ignore all subfolders in "test", thus I modified my .gitignore to:

/test/*/

git status
Untracked files:
  test/dir2
  test/dir3


Putting "/test/dir3" into .gitignore will work fine.


-> It seems that directories are not ignored by a wildcard pattern if
the directory is a link
using: 2.25.1 on Linux


regards Knut


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